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A.M. Links: Bernie Leads Hillary in New Hampshire, Huckabee Plans to Visit Kim Davis in Jail, Trump Scares GOP

Damon Root | 9.8.2015 9:00 AM

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books). His next book, Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment (Potomac Books), will be published in June 2026.

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